I obtained a Ph.D. in medical imaging jointly at the Technical Universtiy of Munich and Imperial College London. After my Ph.D. I held postdoctoral research positions at the School of Psychology, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, and at the Center for Brain and Cognition, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, at the Hedonia Transnational Research Group, University of Oxford, and at the Centre for Psychedelic Research, Imperial College London, working on neural correlates of different states of consciousness. Currently, I explore neural correlates of meditation at the Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing, University of Oxford.

Alongside my scientific research, I trained as a psychotherapeutic counsellor at the Gestalt Centre London and in Jungian dream analysis at British Psychotherapy Foundationand the Society of Analytical Psychology. My counselling approach combines Gestalt therapy, Jungian dream analysis and body-oriented mindfulness-based energy psychotherapy within a client-centred and relational therapeutic framework. As a member of British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) my practice follows ethical BACP guidelines.